Training Students to Conduct Outreach in an Informal Science Learning Environment

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Author(s): Laura Wagner (The Ohio State University, USA), Leslie C. Moore (The Ohio State University, USA)and Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 19
Source title: Enhancing Learning Opportunities Through Student, Scientist, and Teacher Partnerships
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Donna Farland-Smith (The Ohio State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4966-7.ch010

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management and Library Science / Science Education

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This chapter reviews a science outreach training course designed for the Language Sciences Research Lab, a working research facility embedded inside of the Center of Science and Industry (COSI). The course integrates training in informal science education theory, background in a specific science area (language science) and extensive hands-on work at COSI where students engage museum visitors in interactive language-focused activities. Key components of the course are described and a formal evaluation of the course outcomes is reported. The authors discuss how the course enhances an existing partnership between COSI and Ohio State University, as well as ways in which its core elements have been adapted to other fields.

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